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Darryl Flood thought he would have to wait until 2013 to get out of prison, more than a decade after he pleaded guilty to being part of a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. But if all goes as planned this week, the 48-year-old will walk out of a Kentucky prison two years early, one of thousands of federal inmates to benefit from a change that went into effect yesterday reducing recommended sentences for crack cocaine crimes so they are in line with those for powder cocaine.

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